Rickettsialpox. [Dermatol Clin. 1997]

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1: Dermatol Clin. 1997 Apr;15(2):313-8.Links

Rickettsialpox.

Boyd AS.

Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Rickettsialpox is a member of the spotted-fever group of the rickettsioses and results from an infection with Rickettsia akari. This microbe is transmitted by the bite of the house-mouse mite Liponyssoides sanguineus. Patents experience fevers, sweats, headaches, and a vesicular eruption over the trunk and extremities. The palms and soles are spared. An eschar results at the spot of the mite bite. Tetracycline is the treatment of choice.

PMID: 9098640 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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